The Bitcoin has been referred to by the Guiness Book of World Records as the most fearless currency on the Internet. It really doesn't give a shit. If it's hashing, it's mining.

Eew! What's that in its block chain? Oh, it's got a double-spend? Oh, it runs backwards? Now watch this: look FinCEN's up in courts. Bitcoin don't care. It just confirms what it wants. Whenever it's mining it just -- Eew, and it mines, transactions... Watch it reward! Look at that mining.

The Bitcoin is really pretty badass. It has no regard for any other currency whatsoever. Look at it, it's just hashing, and mining blocks. Eew! What's that? Silk Road? Oh that's nasty. Bitcoin's so nasty. Oh look it's hashing things and mining them.

The Bitcoin has a fairly long block chain, but a distinctly elliptical encryption scheme, and, you know, its developers are loose, allowing it to move about freely, and they twist around.

Now look: Here's a house full of gold bugs. Do you think the Bitcoin cares? It doesn't give a shit, it goes right into the homes of libertarians to get some liquidity. How disgusting is that? It mines silk road transactions. Eew, that's so nasty.

But look! The Bitcoin doesn't care! It's users get hacked like a thousand times. It doesn't give a shit. It's just mining. It doesn't care about being hacked by the feds. Nothing can stop the Bitcoin when it's mining. What a crazy fuck! Look, it's mining anonymous transactions, that's disgusting.

It's hashing in slow-motion again. See?

Now, what's interesting is that other currencies like the dollar here, they just wait around until the Bitcoin crashes, and then it swoops in to pick up the scraps. It says, "You do all the work for us, Bitcoin, and we'll just profit whatever you mine, how's that? What'daya say, stupid?"

Look at this currency: "Thanks for the treat, stupid!"

"Hey, come back here," says the Bitcoin.

Currencies don't care, and you know what? The alt-coins do it too. Look at these little alt-coins. They're like "Thanks stupid! Thanks for the mining! See you later." The Bitcoin does all the work and all these other currencies just pick up the scraps.

At nightime the Bitcoin goes mining, because it's hashing. Look! Here comes a fierce battle between a government currency and Bitcoin. I wonder what will happen?

Look at this, there's the Bitcoin just hashing a block, and then look, "Get away from me!" says the government, "Get away from me!" Bitcoin don't care. Bitcoin smacks the shit out of it. And the government comes back and it lashes at the Bitcoin.

Oh, little does the Bitcoin know, FYI: it's been hacked! It's been forked by the 51% attack, so while it's hashing the block chain -- eew, that's disgusting -- all the hacked blocks are seeping into the Bitcoin's block chain, and it forks out. Look at that forked fuck.

Now the Bitcoin is going to fork out for a few minutes, and then it's going to get right back up and start hashing all over again, because it's a resiliant little bastard.

Look at this! Like nothing happened! The Bitcoin gets right back up and continues hashing the block chain.

How disgusting.

And of course, what does the Bitcoin have to hash for the next two weeks?

I'm right here! THE honey badger narrator! I am interested in narrating this since a lot of the language used comes from my video anyway! LOL BTW-Battle at Kruger anyone?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM Love, Randall =) xoxo

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Cool but should have used something that people will recognize when they'll see it somewhere online - and over 90% locations will have B with vertical bars, orange color and often a circle resembling a coin.

I don't get this push to change the logo that already has tremendous momentum and brand recognition. There seems to be a very small contingent of users who think the original logo is somehow not good enough, but they propose this alternative that isn't demonstrably any better. I can't force anyone to do anything, nor do I want to, but I wish for the sake of Bitcoin that its advocates would stick to the established brand image.

Well, $ is used for australian, canadian, and US dollars at least. Sure, Baht isn't a fringe currency, but neither is it a major one like one of the above, so I don't see a problem with reusing the symbol, possibly adding/removing a vertical line if necessary.

Now that is true, and it's a minor obstacle to overcome. I would bet that the ISO will assign a currency code to Bitcoin (probably XBC or XBT) within the next year. Once that has happened, the Unicode Consortium should accept the application for a character code point for Bitcoin. Then the double-nubbed uppercase 'B' can become a real character. It won't be in many fonts for quite a long while, but most font rendering systems can perform automatic font substitution to fill in missing glyphs.

It is the most "internet" advertisement I've ever seen. Essentially in image macro format, requires knowledge of honey badger meme. In terms of market segmentation, its style is probably targeting the right demographic. Early, very tech-savvy adopters are in, and I think it makes sense to branch out to the heavily internet-connected, somewhat technically inclined young crowd who may not have heard of (or are on the fence about) bitcoin. It's an easier transition than, say, jumping straight to your grandmother who still has AOL, and you're more likely to gain traction with a group that's already buying and selling goods online.

I do agree that the execution could have been a little better, but I'm not a marketer nor a graphic designer so I can't speak to how to improve it. But I do think that it has enough appeal to a key demographic to be considered worthwhile.

Don't underestimate viral marketing. People who don't get stuff look it up once they get to the office or back home. "Honey, did you see that weird billboard today? Do you know what it is?" "Not really, but come to think of it I saw something on bloomberg about bitcoin... let's google it...."

On the other hand, since the original video has 60 million views I am not so sure it will be missed by many who peruse the internet regularly. At the very least, this would likely be funny if the viewer of the ad a.) uses the internet a lot and/or b.) has friends who use the internet a lot, otherwise known as bitcoin's target market.

Said person will hopefully get the joke but not the currency...yet. The curiosity/incomplete mystery should hopefully help sink in new interest.

I still think they should use the bitcoin logo though. Also, this whole thing was just bullshit, I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, I just love arguing debate.

Oh no, not the precious "I have a stick up my ass and no sense of humor" demographic! It's good marketing. Pikeadz did a good job laying out why it's a good marketing strategy. The demographic you're worried about wouldn't respond well to anything with that medium anyway since it would be best to try for feelings of social crusading and elitism which wouldn't work well with billboards.

Sure, many people may get it, but it doesn't stop the poster looking like utter shit. If you're going to spend all that money paying for that billboard space, the least you could do is get someone who knows knows something about designing such a poster. Hell, you could just post a submission in this sub asking for designs, and members here would do it for free.

It looks like a block on my computer when people type it. Plus, it is needlessly confusing. It's hard to believe people thought that changing the logo of a already under-recognized currency was a good idea. Fucking hipsters.

I'm still waiting for someone to contact me regarding narrating the story of the Bitcoin...I'll be over here, trying to figure out who the fuck is on first?!: http://youtu.be/_Okm2lFA5HI Love, Randall =) xoxo

All these people and agencies are saying "Bitcoin should do this" and "Bitcoin should follow this" and "Bitcoin should be regulated like this," but Bitcoin, like the honeybadger, doesn't give a shit. It does what it wants.

For all the people who keep insisting that bitcoins are just money, this subreddit seems to never get that. It's always looking at it like some cause or special club or something. It's not for people someone likes, or dislikes, has things in common with or not. The target is everyone and every possible interest.

Third-party? Unless every one of your daily transactions are made with government as the counterparty, then all currencies are third-party. Though for the life of me, I can't figure out how this has the slightest relevance to anything.

Nobody uses Bitcoin. We get it. It's completely useless and valueless with no significance to the real world. Tell that to WikiLeaks, Wordpress, Reddit, BitcoinStore, or hundreds of small businesses that have voluntarily chosen to accept it as tender.

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